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@fallen-archie wrote:
So going back to the OP perhaps we need to accelerate our quest for inter galactic travel in order that we might find another planet to trash. Would we expect to travel for free or would it be subjected to a means test? Seriously who would decide who gets to go? And shouldn’t we look at our history first, learn lessons from it and attempt to get it right for a change, do the elderly get to travel or will they be left at home assuming of course they have one! And what about animals and birds do they get to go as well or will there be none left by the time we have the technology? It won’t happen in my lifetime and I suspect that the future holds little for the young and we will be blamed for it quite rightly!

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Could it would it, be justifiable to spend billions on a quest that could very possibly come to nothing when there are so many poor and starving on this planet?